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Autore: | De Waal Alexander |
Titolo: | AIDS and power : disease and democracy in Africa / / Alex de Waal |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Zed Books in association with the International African Institute, 2006 |
Edizione: | ebook edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (158 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.196/979200968 |
Soggetto topico: | AIDS (Disease) - Political aspects - South Africa |
AIDS (Disease) - South Africa | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | A manageable catastrophe -- Life expectancy and public opinion -- Structure of this book -- Denial and how it is overcome -- Private experience and public concern -- Giving meaning to AIDS -- 'Normalizing' AIDS -- Sex and power -- Domesticating AIDS, and its costs -- The media and overcoming denial -- Pavement radio -- AIDS activists : reformers and revolutionaries -- Confrontation and its limits -- 'Positive positive women' -- AIDS and elections -- Activist networks, local and global -- Transformations in governance -- New solidarities -- How African democracies withstand AIDS -- The issue of a lifetime -- 'Weber in reverse' -- How do African states 'really' function? -- Democratic demographics -- The economics of democracy -- 'New variant famine' -- The political benefits of AIDS -- Ugandan myths -- ABC : carefully mixed messages -- 'Fighting' AIDS -- On the difficulties of showing success -- Treatment regimes -- Power, choices and survival -- Lutaaya, 'alone' -- Democracies can manage AIDS -- Democracies do not prevent HIV. |
Sommario/riassunto: | AIDS and Power explains why social and political life in Africa goes on in a remarkably normal way, and how political leaders have successfully managed the AIDS epidemic so as to overcome any threats to their power. |
Titolo autorizzato: | AIDS and power |
ISBN: | 1-350-21837-5 |
1-84813-609-9 | |
1-281-21558-9 | |
1-78034-520-8 | |
9786611215583 | |
1-84813-054-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910345131403321 |
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